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. 2016 May 2;7(2):41–50. doi: 10.5365/WPSAR.2015.6.4.010

Table 1. TB case notifications from countries and areas of the Western Pacific Region, 2013.

Countries and areas Total
notified
New and relapse* Re-treatment excluding relapse New or previous treatment history unknown   Relapse Percentage of pulmonary cases bacteriologically confirmed
Pulmonary bacterio-
logically confirmed
Pulmonary clinically diagnosed Extra-
pulmonary
  Pulmonary bacterio-
logically confirmed
Pulmonary clinically diagnosed Extra-
pulmonary
American Samoa                    
Australia 1 256 1 250 6 612 86 512   26 1 13 88
Brunei Darussalam 212 212 0 149 9 48   6 0 0 95
Cambodia 39 055 37 743 1 312 14 082 9 069 14 203   389 0 0 61
China 855 241 847 176 8 065 275 915 512 469 30 767   28 025     37
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) 4 773 4 744 29 2 439 1 033 893   259 66 54 71
Macao Special Administrative Region (China) 437 433 4 286 61 57   25 3 1 83
Cook Islands 2 2 0 1 0 1   0 0 0 100
Fiji 269 254 15 106 74 71   3 0 0 60
French Polynesia 61 52 9 29 8 6   7 1 1 80
Guam 48 48 0 22 22 4   0 0 0 50
Japan 20 495 20 495   12 758 2 201 4 274   831 182 249 85
Kiribati 420 407 13 128 159 85   22 10 3 47
Lao People's Democratic Republic 4 214 4 130 84 3 004 541 392   193 0 0 86
Malaysia 24 071 23 417 654 13 641 5 640 3 046   676 307 107 71
Marshall Islands 153 149 4 70 48 28   3 0 0 60
Federated States of Micronesia, Federated States of                    
Mongolia 4 733 4 331 402 1 622 733 1 756   220 0 0 72
Nauru                    
New Caledonia                    
New Zealand 277 272 5 125 15 125   6 0 1 90
Niue 0 0 0 0 0 0   0 0 0
Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of the 33 33 0 15 12 1   5 0 0 62
Palau 8 8 0 7 0 1   0 0 0 100
Papua New Guinea 24 860 22 657 2 203 3 150 9 390 9 919   198     26
Philippines 244 392 229 918 14 474 97 353 123 510 4 386   4 669 0 0 45
Republic of Korea 45 292 41 579 3 713 18 860 9 860 7 369   2 957 1 699 834 65
Samoa 22 22 0 11 4 7   0 0 0 73
Singapore 2 172 2 164 8 1 103 647 278   92 28 16 64
Solomon Islands 368 360 8 136 105 114   5 0 0 57
Tokelau 0 0 0 0 0 0   0 0 0
Tonga 10 10 0 8 0 2   0 0 0 100
Tuvalu 18 18 0 10 6 2         62
Vanuatu 123 123 0 42 24 56   1 0 0 64
Viet Nam 102 196 100 395 1 801 50 607 24 403 18 326   7 059     70
Wallis and Futuna Islands 2 2 0 2 0 0   0 0 0 100
Western Pacific Region 1 375 213 1 342 404 32 809 496 293 700 129 96 729   45 677 2 297 1 279 44

Note: Blank cells indicate data not reported.

* New and relapse includes cases for which the treatment history is unknown.